Front Teeth

Ry has his two front teeth, I know it is so crazy. That explains all the grumpy days we have had lately. So if you are counting that is 4 on top and 2 on the bottom. Tonight my mom and grandpa came over for dinner, well they brought dinner with them. Ryan was in full form, he was using his dump truck to walk, he is getting so good and fast. I love middle of the week surprises like dinner with the family. We saw Audrey and Erik for a bit, the boys are becoming more independent each day. Today they were taking each others toys and out of all of the toys they were playing with the most simple toys. I was talking with Audrey today ans she said something to me that really stuck with me. As moms it is always easier to talk about the good things going on with our children. So true in all areas of each of our lives. Like I was saying to her I have had a "hard" last couple of weeks. It is a combo of several things, I use my blog as an outlet/journal so it is full of the ups and downs of motherhood and being a stay at home mom. I hope you all know that this is an honest, vulnerable look into our lives. I usually type exactly what I am feeling or thinking.

Why the songs??

Each one of the songs put on our blog represent something to our family. It might be a song we wanted to hear or it might have deeper meaning to us. Life is full of ups, downs and unexpected turns. I pray every night I am the wife, mother and woman that God has intended me to be. I pray that knowing that throughout my day without God's grace I would not survive. This time two years ago was when I was dealing with all of my fertility issues. It truly was one of the most trying times in my life. I am reminded today that God's timing is perfect and that he has a plan for my life. I type all of this as my little precious boy sleeps down the hall. Ryan is a gift. He is my Samuel.

Rainy day!

Today there is record floods and rain in our area. The entire city of Orting was evacuated and the major high-way is closed. Rexer was going to be home on a Kelly day(a mandatory day off), but he went back for overtime this morning at about 5am. We will not see him until tomorrow sometime. That is a very odd thing to me still that he will be gone for 24, 36 and even sometimes 48 hours at a time. Ryan and I have a good time. We take lots of pictures and try to keep things fun and interesting. I always appreciate all the phone calls and texts from everyone, it is nice to talk to adults. Today I met Julie and Johanna for lunch. Ry had a blast at the Gonzales household. It was nice to try to relax this morning without little man, but it seemed like if it would go wrong well today it did. The good thing is that we are home now safe and dry.

Date Night

Tonight was date night for Rex and I. Well as of yesterday it became date night out of convince. I had Julie's keys-which were accidentally left in my purse and I needed a babysitter for tomorrow. So tonight is date night. The funny thing is that we did not go out to dinner or go to the movies, we went and test drove trucks, yes I am serous! It was more my idea than Rexers. It just seemed like a perfect time to go without a little kiddo with a carseat. Rex had mentioned it a while ago and this was the first chance we have gotten to test drive trucks. Also when we came home we got in our pjs and checked our blog and than looked at pictures from when Ryan was born. Jamie got amazing pictures that captured the entire birth experience. I love to look back at those pictures, they are a beautiful reminder of Ryan's birth. So we sat and cried and talked about our little boy and how big he is getting. Usually the rule is on date night that we do not talk about Ry, well we blew it this time. It is amazing how a little break can make you realize how much you love your little one. So Uncle Leroy and Auntie Julie thank you for all the help. It will be nice to just relax with my hubby, but the deal is next time you have to take Bunker too!!!

I have said this several times before on my blog, but one of my favorite things to do is watch Ryan sleep. There is a special peace that comes over me when I see my little boy sleeping. Sometimes I forget that he is mine and a product of me, until I watch him sleep. Tonight I went in to his room to watch him sleep and he was sleeping with his butt up in the air. I use to sleep like that when I was a little girl. He has his butt up in the air and his arm around his little glow seahorse. The seahorse is a new addition to bedtime. We are hoping that he will comfort him in the middle of the night. It seems to be working so far.

Boot camp success

I am proud to say that boot camp has been a success, well at least for the last two nights. Rex and I have slept all night. Ryan is sleeping in to about 8, which is so nice. Yesterday we went up to the Gonzales house. It snowed most the afternoon, it was so beautiful. By the time we left there was about 3 inches of snow. It made for a long drive home, but at least was really pretty. I am starting to feel better, it is amazing how good you feel after a good night sleep. Rexer is on a 24 so I am hoping that tonight goes well also.
Ryan ate an apple yesterday, Elisha was eating one and she gave him a bite. He held on to that apple so tight. He was pretty much just gumming, but he held the entire thing in his hands-too cute.

Baby boot camp night 3

The Last couple of weeks Ryan has been waking up in the early morning and wanting to get up. We are unsure of what exactly is going on, but are pretty sure that it is a combo of teething and learning how to stand in his crib. I believe that Ryan has acquired one of my not so nice qualities. He is very stubborn. Well it is a good thing sometimes, but when it comes to him sleeping not such a good thing. This is the not so glamors side of parenting. Two nights ago Ryan was up from 1:44am-3:30am. I know most of you are saying just let him cry it out, believe me we have tried everything. Poor Rexer was sitting on the edge of the bed falling asleep listening to Ryan crying. The problem is that he stands in his crib and he is unsure how to sit down. He gets stuck in that position. The lack of sleep and not feeling so well have really taken a toll on me. I am thankful that Rexer has been home and on nighttime duty. I have been able to get more sleep. It is amazing to me how something so little can have such big lungs. I try really hard to be so thankful for every moment I have with my little guy, but lack of sleep does funny things to Mamma's and babies.

Rexer called and talked to Ryan, these pictures are his reaction when he heard his voice Ry also said Dadda when he heard his voice. Told you he is a total Daddy's boy!

Happy New Year

Well it is hard to believe that another year has past. We have had so many Blessings this year, it will be hard to top 2008. First Ry being born than our house and Rex and I celebrating our 5 year wedding anniversary. Life sure flys. Today Ryan is 9 months old. So we started off our day at the doctors office for a check up. Mungy went with us because Rexer is at work. Ry had to get a shot and I think the shot hurt Grandma more that it hurt Ry. She was sitting in the back seat of the car holding his hand until he fell asleep-tooooo cute Mungy. Ry is 19lbs and 30.5 inches long, tall and skinny!

Tonight Ry and I will have a pj party to bring in the New Year, well honestly I hope he is sleeping. We had a busy day and I am still not feeling all that well so it will be easier to stay home. I do have to admit it is weird just staying home. The pictures are of our evening here at home.

Thank you

I just got back from a call and was not tired enough to go to bed. Who knows, I will probably have to go on another one here in a few minuets anyway. So to pass some time until I do get tired again I decided to check out our blog. Cin, thank you so very much for starting this blog. I get to see things that I would not normally get to see.
I check out our blog every once in awhile to see if Cin has updated it with a new adventure Ry has found or something silly he has done, like sit in a tupperware bin. It makes me laugh but also wish that I am there for every new thing Ryan does. I have missed Cin and Ryan very much since going back to shift. It was definitely something to get used to going to days but I did not think it would be this hard for me to get used to going back to shift. I love my job and have been blessed tremendously with it but I could definitely stay home all the time. So Cin this blog is for you and all the hard work you put in to raising our son and being the best Mom you can be. It is hard to be both parents at once. I wish I could be there on days you need a break and take care of yourself. I love you very much and will see you in the morning. I hope you get some sleep tonight.

Sick day

I have decided to try to pass a new law. Mommas should get sick days. All those in favor say "I". I am hoping that you all agree. Today was one of those days that you wish you could sleep right through. Unfortunately because my blog is my journal you all get to hear about it. I am sooooo thankful that I have such an easy going little guy because today was miserable enough. Rexer is working, which it seems like every time I am sick he is at work. Which before Ry, stunk, and now it really stinks. I believe I have the flu, that everyone in the Gonzale's family had. I thought I was in the clear. Than I woke up today feeling horrible and it just seemed to get worse all day. Ry and I stayed in our pjs until about 4 and than we both were getting stir crazy. Also our house smelt like a sick person so we decide to venture out. Where did we go??? But of course Target, thank God for Target, right Audrey. It seems like Target always makes everything better. Grumpy kids, sick moms, Target always has the answer. It felt good to get out, but I used up most of the little energy I had. Although my day was full of not so fun moments, we did have some fun ones. In the picture Ry was standing up holding on to the shelf; he is learning how to sit down. In the process he sat in a container of blocks. He was stuck for a while until he figured out how to get out. Also he found the heater vent and was licking it while the heat was blowing in his face. I unfortunately did not get a picture of that, but you can imagine.

Fun Pictures of the boys!

Here are some fun pictures of the boys opening their presents. Well okay us moms did most of the unwrapping. They both are so cute. Ryan kept trying to take Erik's toys-not so cute. Although Ry is only 9 months old it seems like my favorite phrases are: be nice, we do not hit, we share and be gentle. Ryan is all boy in everything he does.

Little to no assembly required

Okay, I have decided that the people who make children toys, must also work with the makers of aspirin. It is a total conspiracy. I love the toys that you get and it says on the side of the box, little or no assembly required. So you open it thinking ok I can do this, then 4 hours and a migraine later you finally figure it out. I always think that is so funny. The thing is that I usually have tried everything to get it to work and then it is the simplest thing that finally puts the toy together. While assembling some of Ry's toys, he must have hit his head on like 10 different toys. Seriously how many times can a kid hit their head before there is some serious damage done. My little guy is getting more and more adventurous as each second passes. Right now he found an old gram cracker and is feeding it to the dog. He is holding on to my chair with one hand and feeding the dog with the other hand. Funny that I am just watching, I am sure we will go for a record number of falls today! Thank God their bums are padded with diapers, just wish we had something like that for their beautiful heads.

So many plans, but still nothing is done

The snow is starting to melt all of the sudden our beautiful winter wonderland is turning into a muddy mess. It is so nasty out that I am scared to let the dog out to go pee. I know that he will go straight for the mud just to spite me. Then it will be just one more thing to clean up. Rexer is on a 48. I got all dressed up to see him at the fire house for about 30 minutes. I am thankful that I get to see him while he is on shift, somehow it makes it ok that I have not seen him for 36 hours. It took about an hour to get ready and we only saw him for 30 minutes. Ry was excited and happy to see his Daddy so it was worth it. Then we went to Mungy and Papa's house and I had the only decent meal I have eaten in a day in half-Thanks Mom. Ry and I came home to a messy house, which I should be cleaning, but instead I am blogging. It is half way clean. It just seems like it has been one of those days. The picture is of Ry in the middle of all his toys in the livig room, I have yet to put them all away!

It is my beautiful sister's birthday and like any other mom she does not get a day off. This morning Johanna fell and was knocked out for about 30 seconds. She is fine and by the time Julie called me from Mary Bridge Johanna was running around. Julie and the girls had a fun trip in the ambulance. Ellie kept telling everyone that her Uncle is a fire-medic. Juls said it took her about 15 minutes to realize that they were not here to play and that something serous had happened. Actually it is quite amazing 3 children and the oldest is 5 1/2 and this is the first trip to the ER. It made for a eventful morning for the Gonzales clan so two new stuffed animals and a ride in the back of the ambulance later, they are all home safe.

Organizing Fool!!!

I love Christmas for so many reasons. As nerdy as it sounds I love to organize all of my new presents and clothes. I just spent the last hour organizing Ryan's new clothes and putting all of his winter clothes in his drawers. Every thing is folded and in the right spot, that will last about a week. It was interesting trying to do this with Ry in the room. Rexer is on a 48, usually when I am on a serious organizing and on a give away binge Rex is home and he will take Ryan. Well, we had fun. I had to fold most things twice because he would come unfold them, but it was fun just playing in his room. We do not really have many toys in his room because they are all in the play room so he pulled all of his books off his bookshelf and played with hangers. He also would pull himself up on anything and everything he could hang on to. He was holding on to the rocking chair and it started to rock, I looked over and I do not think he knew what to do, so all else fails you just sit down. Which he did. My goal is to try to get the play room all cleaned tonight while Ry is sleeping. I need to rotate through toys and disinfect everything. I am excited, I love nights like this. I know that I am a total nerd, but I would bet money that my Mom and Sister are doing the same thing right now!!!

Merry Christmas

What an amazing morning. Our morning has been filled with children laughing, gasps and Christmas presents being open. Last night Santa knew exactly where Ryan, Elisha and Johanna would be this morning at Mungy(this is what the kids call Grandma) and Papa's house of course. Santa and his reindeer enjoyed cookies and caesar salad from the children. Highlights from our morning so far have been, Ryan started to walk. Yes you read it right he is walking without assistance. Rexer got him a dump truck and he can also push it. Well Ry started to walk with it. Johanna pretty much opened every one's presents and than told all of us that they were from her. It was pretty cute. She would say "Aunty look what I bought you." Elisha got a beautiful horse trailer and truck. When she opened it you would have thought we gave her the world. She was so excited. So for all the money spent, Ryan loved the paper the most. It has been such a Blessing to see our son on his first Christmas. It was wonderful to included him on Buchanan traditions that I have done my entire life and ones that Rex had been a part of for the last ten years. So our plans for the day are pretty simple. We are all in our pjs and we plan on staying in them all day. Oh yeah, Ry ate waffles, eggs and had apple juice to drink. He love all three. it was toooooo cute. All the kids ate at the kid table together. Mom is making prime rib for dinner- yummy!!! As much as we are having a blast we do miss all of you that could not see Ryan's first Christmas. I hope that these pictures give some insight to how cute he is.

the 3 dancin fools!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Daddy we miss you!

Honey be safe tonight, see you in the morning!

-Ryan climbing up the stairs!

The snow is still here, it is crazy. This morning Ryan and I ventured out to Grandma's house. I love that she is on Christmas break from school. Yesterday we went up to the Gonzales's to celebrate Christmas with Bri. He will not be home for Christmas this year, so we had one early. It was a great day. It snowed the entire time we were all there. It is amazing how the snow makes everything so beautiful. Rexer is at work, he is on the engine which makes me nervous. That is a big vehicle to drive in the snow. He has had a blast working while the snow has been around. I guess it keeps things interesting and new for him and all the other emergency personal. Ryan is super active. I feel like just in the last week he has changed so much. He is siting himself up, standing in his crib and crawling everywhere like crazy. He also is constantly talking saying mama or dada. He is not a little baby, he is more like a toddler. He becomes more and more independent every day. He is starting to eat more big people food. He loves eggs, we are slowly trying to integrate more solid foods. He has fun with it. He really likes peas I am not so much a fan, but Rexer really likes them. I think Ry likes them because he can pick them up and they are bite size. I think that is what he will have for dinner tonight, peas and eggs- sounds yummy!!!